By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: July 20, 2006
Thursday, 20 July 2006
- Time.com Gadget of the Week: Nike + iPod Sport Kit ★
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Wilson Rothman:
For a field already glutted with gadgets, the Nike + iPod kit is the most elegant of high-tech runner’s aids.
- Bezos Expeditions Invests in 37signals ★
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Jason Fried:
Today we have a very special announcement to make: Bezos Expeditions, a personal investment company of Jeff Bezos, has made a minority private equity investment in 37signals.
- Boing Boing: YouTube’s New Policy Says ‘We Own Your Content’ ★
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Boing Boing on YouTube’s rewritten terms of service.
- The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Aged 51 1/2 ★
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Pretty funny. I especially like this one where he pranks John Sculley. (Note to whoever it is who’s writing this: the real Jobs always uses the word “bozo” when talking about Sculley.)
- OmniWeb 5.5 Beta 1 ★
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Public beta of Omni’s excellent web browser, which is “now based off a slightly customized version of WebKit”.
- 1981 Atari Game Catalog ★
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Posted to Flickr by Jason Santa Maria. Not only did I have most of these games, I specifically remember this very catalog. Wonderful.
- Did Thomas Pynchon Post on His Amazon Page? ★
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A description of Thomas Pynchon’s forthcoming sixth novel, ostensibly written by Pynchon himself, briefly appeared on Amazon but was soon pulled. Neither his publisher, Amazon, nor Pynchon himself (duh) has confirmed whether he actually wrote it, nor explained why it was pulled. Someone fished it out of their cache, however:
Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they’re doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction.
Update: It was written by Pynchon, but Amazon posted it prematurely. And the title of Pynchon’s novel is Against the Day.
- PCalc 3.1 ★
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James Thomson’s best-of-breed calculator app keeps getting better; version 3.1 adds an impressive AppleScript dictionary — including the ability to use scripts as custom functions and conversions. Highly recommended.
- The General Purpose Thing ★
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Very insightful observation by David Weiss:
I think what is so quickly forgotten about the transition to Mac OS X was Apple’s against-the-grain assertion that they could build an OS the did appeal to beginner users and power users alike! This was NOT the prevailing wisdom of the day. I even remember seeing previews of the OS in which there were “modes” like standard user and advanced user.
(Via Wolf Rentzsch.)
- Strong Opinions, Weakly Held ★
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Bob Sutton:
A couple years ago, I was talking the Institute’s Bob Johansen about wisdom, and he explained that – to deal with an uncertain future and still move forward – they advise people to have “strong opinions, which are weakly held.”
What a great mantra.
- Shiira 2.0 — A Visual Preview ★
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Mark Steiner’s extensive sneak peak at an early developer build of Shiira 2.0. Nicely done.
- Sidekick 3 Mini Review ★
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Steven Frank:
It has been said that it feels more like an SK2.5 and I think I’d probably go along with that description.
- Lightroom Beta 3 for Windows ★
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Adobe’s Lightroom is now available as a public beta for Windows, too.
- Michael Tsai: Cocoa foreach Macro ★
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Once you start using a language with a built-in
foreachstatement, it’s irritating to go back to a language without one.